13, DRURY LANE
13, DRURY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388331
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 13, DRURY LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 13, DRURY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388331
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- 13, DRURY LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 13, DRURY LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 13, DRURY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knutsford
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 75298 78931
Details
KNUTSFORD
SJ7478 DRURY LANE 792-1/3/20 (South side) 12/10/71 No.13 (Formerly Listed as: DRURY LANE Nos.4-13 (Consecutive) Old Laundry (formerly listed as workshop between 8 & 9). Water Tower & Chimney)
GV II
Tower house. c1900. By Richard Harding Watt. Painted brick with low pyramidal slate roof overhanging on struts. Severe Germanic style. 4-storeyed with open upper storey. Arched entrance in return elevation, and narrow windows paired in the upper storey, single lights in ground and first floors. Small 2-storeyed cottage extension beyond return elevation, with full-height squared bay window. High entrance arch to left, in wall with hipped roof overhanging on struts, and wide segmentally-arched entrance with wooden main and side gates with Art Nouveau-style iron work. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the tower formed part of a complex including laundry and workers' cottages established by Watt on the site of a dye works and tannery. Part of a remarkable development in Free Style built under the patronage of Richard Harding Watt.
Listing NGR: SJ7529878931
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476339
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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